Director, Marketing

Bethesda, MD (On-site)

$118K/yr – $123K/yrDirector/Executive6+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own AFP's integrated marketing and go-to-market strategy across membership, events, certifications, certificates, and professional development offerings to drive awareness, acquisition, engagement, revenue, and growth.

  • Define audience and market strategies with segments and regional considerations to support continued growth.
  • Build and lead a high-performing, data-informed marketing team and culture to enable collaboration and continuous improvement.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead AFP’s integrated marketing and go-to-market strategy across membership, events, certifications, certificates, and professional development offerings to drive awareness, acquisition, engagement, revenue, and growth.
  • Translate organizational priorities into coordinated marketing strategies, aligning teams and stakeholders around shared goals and execution.
  • Develop AFP’s global audience strategy by identifying priority customer segments, market opportunities, and regional considerations that support continued growth.
  • Partner with Marketing Strategy and Digital Strategy leadership to create a seamless customer experience from initial awareness and acquisition through conversion and long-term engagement.
  • Use customer insights, performance data, and market intelligence to guide decisions, measure effectiveness, and continuously optimize marketing strategies.
  • Lead and develop a high-performing marketing team by establishing clear priorities, coaching team members, and creating accountability for results.
  • Foster a collaborative, innovative, and data-informed marketing culture focused on continuous improvement and organizational growth.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience preferred, leading integrated marketing strategies that drive customer acquisition, engagement, revenue, and growth.
  • Bachelor’s degree required.
  • Experience developing audience and market strategies and identifying customer segments, growth opportunities, and evolving audience needs.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn customer insights, performance metrics, and market intelligence into action.
  • A collaborative leader who can build alignment and effectively influence stakeholders across teams.
  • Ability to balance strategic thinking with execution, manage competing priorities, and drive initiatives forward.
  • Experience developing marketing strategies for diverse or global audiences while maintaining a consistent brand.
  • Strong people leadership skills with the ability to coach, develop, and build accountability within a team.

Benefits

  • A collegial, casual work environment.
  • Competitive base salary + a generous commission plan.
  • Great career growth.
  • Superb benefits plan, including a generous vacation/sick/holiday leave policy, medical, dental and vision health insurance, 401K plan with employer match and flexible schedules.
  • "When Work Works" award by the Society for Human Resource Management for our flexible workplace.
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Association for Financial Professionals

Headquartered outside of Washington, D.C. and located regionally in Singapore, the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) is the professional society committed to advancing the success of treasury and finance members and their organizations. AFP established and administers the Certified Treasury Professional and Certified Corporate FP&A professional credentials, which set the standards of excellence in treasury and finance. Each year, AFP hosts the largest networking conference worldwide for more than 7,000 corporate financial professionals. These websites are also part of AFP:AFP Annual Conferencehttps://conference.financialprofessionals.org/The most important event for treasury and finance worldwide providing the very best in original, essential and unbiased content.Certified Treasury Professional https://ctpcert.financialprofessionals.org/The leading credential in treasury worldwide.Certified Corporate FP&A Professionalhttps://fpacert.financialprofessionals.org/The leading credential in financial planning and analysis worldwide.AFP Collaboratehttps://collaborate.financialprofessionals.org/The online community for treasury and finance professionals to ask questions, hear new ideas and provide feedback.

Founded in 1980
Rockville, Maryland, USA
157 employees (13 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$118K/yr – $123K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
10 (6% of company)
Median Tenure
17.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
172.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$618.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.6%
Direct
43.8%
Referral
6.8%
Social
4.4%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~157

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Director, Marketing

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